SLAMMA JAMMA’, the new faith-based basketball movie is earning high marks as the film opened yesterday in theaters across the country.

The film has earned an 8.7 on IMDB and a 95% approval rating among audience reviewers.

“We purposefully kept the film away from critics,” says a spokesperson from RiverRain. “Most film critics are wonderful, fair people with a real heart, but you have the ones who simply ‘mean-spirited’.”

Case in point is one film critic from AV Club called the director an ‘evangelical shlockmeister’.